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Barnabas, “son of consolation” (Acts 4:36)., a person Luke described as “a good man” (11:24), was chosen and sent by the Jerusalem church to investigate the mixed congregation of Jews and Gentiles in Syrian Antioch.

Most of us live hurried lives. We are hard pressed at work, at home, and at church to accomplish more than a twenty-four hour day seems to allow. The demands are overwhelming. In fact, full

The giving to any one the name and place and privileges of a son who is not a son bybirth. “(1.) Natural. Thus Pharaoh’s daughter adopted Moses (Ex. 2:10), and Mordecai Esther (Esther 2:7). “(2.) National. God adopted Israel (Ex. 4:22; Deut. 7:6; Hos. 11:1; Rom. 9:4). “(3.) Spiritual. An act of God’s graceby which he brings men “into the number of his redeemed family, and makes them partakers” of all the blessings he has provided for them. Adoption represents the new relations into which the believer is “introduced byjustification, and the privileges connected” “therewith, viz., an interest in God’s peculiar love (John 17:23;” “Rom. 5:5-8), a spiritual nature (2 Pet. 1:4; John 1:13), the” possession of a spirit becoming children of God (1 Pet. 1:14; 2 “John 4; Rom. 8:15-21; Gal. 5:1; Heb. 2:15), present protection,” “consolation, supplies (Luke 12:27-32; John 14:18; 1 Cor.” “3:21-23; 2 Cor. 1:4), fatherly chastisements (Heb. 12:5-11), and” “a future glorious inheritance (Rom. 8:17, 23; James 2:5; Phil.” 3:21).

““But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and […]